The tender is comprised of 2 lots. Each lot is comprised of two leased lines, one from Brussels, the other from Luxembourg, both connecting to SWIFT through the network of the network partner (see Technical Specifications for further details)

Bids must be submitted by 27/11/2018 at the latest (see Invitation Letter for further details)

Duration of the contract: 4 years maximum (see Draft Contract for further details).

Short description:

The aim of the above mentioned open call for tenders is the establishment of inter-institutional framework contracts (maximum 3 contractors in a cascade mechanism per lot) for the provision of on-site (intra-muros) and off-site (extra-muros) services regarding information technology assistance for financial management systems for the European Commission and other Institutions, Bodies and Agencies of the European Union. More information is available in the tender documentation.

The duration of the framework contracts resulting from the present invitation to tender shall be for a maximum period of four years.
Please download, read and fill-in all the required documents before submitting a tender. Any offer received which does not include all requested documents may be rejected.

Please note that:

Requests for additional information and/or questions on the tender file must be placed in writing using the e-tendering platform via the direct link to tender documents mentioned above. The contracting authority is not bound to reply to requests received less than five working days before the final date for submission of tenders.

Answers to questions, together with any possible corrections to the tender documents, will be published in the e-tendering platform, via the direct link to tender documents mentioned above. Tenderers are therefore required to check that page regularly during the preparation of their tender and before the final submission.

Thedeadline for submission of offers is 31/05/2016 at 16.00 (Brussel’s time).
Offers sent by postal or courier services must be posted before this date and time. Offers delivered by hand must be received before this date and time.

The opening board will take place on the 07/06/2016 at 10:00 at the following address: European CommissionDG BUDGETAvenue d'Auderghem, 19Building: BRE2Room: 07/405

A place for the opening of tenders can be obtained at the latest one week before the opening date, via the functional mailbox BUDG-2016-PO-01@ec.europa.eu . Maximum one representative per tenderer is allowed.

2015/BUDG – Rental of infrastructure and logistic support for a seminar of the Heads of Finance Units (Brussels)

Please, refer to this page

Contract notice: supply of technical assistance services in the field of audits and controls

Short description of the contract or purchase(s):
The aim of this invitation to tender is to provide user departments with multiple framework contracts with reopening of competition for technical assistance services in the field of audits and controls.

We hereby inform you that we have decided to cancel the above procurement procedure. The grounds for our decision are as follows:
To enable the comprehensive evaluation of late concordant criticism expressed by a number of potential tenderers concerning the selection criteria related to one specific profile.

The Contracting Authority intends to re-launch the procedure.

If you believe that there was maladministration, you may lodge a complaint to the European Ombudsman within two years of the date when you became aware of the facts on which the complaint is based (see http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu).

Any request you may make and any reply from us, or any complaint for maladministration, will have neither the purpose nor the effect of suspending the time-limit for lodging an action for annulment of the present decision, which must be done within two months of notification of this letter. The court responsible for hearing annulment procedures is the General Court of the European Union:

Short description:

The aim of the above mentioned open call for tenders is the establishment of inter-institutional framework contracts (maximum 3 contractors in a cascade mechanism) for the provision of on-site (intra-muros) and off-site (extra-muros) services regarding information technology assistance for financial management systems for the European Commission and other Institutions, Bodies and Agencies of the European Union. More information is available in the tender documentation.

The duration of the framework contracts resulting from the present invitation to tender shall be for a maximum period of four years.

Please download, read and fill-in all the required documents before submitting a tender. Any offer received which does not include all requested documents may be rejected.

Please note that:

Requests for additional information and/or questions on the tender file must be placed in writing using the e-tendering platform via the direct link to tender documents mentioned above. The contracting authority is not bound to reply to requests received less than five working days before the final date for submission of tenders.

Answers to questions, together with any possible corrections to the tender documents, will be published in the e-tendering platform, via the direct link to tender documents mentioned above. Tenderers are therefore required to check that page regularly during the preparation of their tender and before the final submission.

The deadline for submission of offers is 06/10/2015 at 16.00 (Brussel’s time). Offers sent by postal or courier services must be posted before this date and time. Offers delivered by hand must be received before this date and time.

The opening board will take place on the 13/10/2015 at 10.00 at the following address: European CommissionDG BUDGETAvenue d'Auderghem, 19Building: BRE2Room: 07/405

A place for the opening of tenders can be obtained at the latest one week before the opening date, via the functional mailbox BUDG-2015-PO-01@ec.europa.eu . Maximum one representative per tenderer is allowed.

Contract notice BUDG15/PO/02 Inter-institutional framework contract for the delivery of training on financial IT systems

Official Journal of the European Union, S series, Reference: OJ 2015/S 062-107226

Short description of the contract:

The aim of the training activities which are the subject of this invitation to tender is to ensure that staff of the contracting authorities (the European Commission, the Executive Agencies, the Community Agencies and other Institutions/bodies) has the knowledge and skills required to use the financial IT systems effectively.
Please download and read all the documents before submitting a tender.
You will also find a table recapitulating all the documents related to this tender and the language(s) in which each of them is available (mostly in English only). Table of documents (EN, FR, DE)List of documents and annexes related to the call for tender

Requests for the existing teaching aids, user documentation and E-learning modules must be made by e-mail to the functional mailbox BUDG-15-PO-02@ec.europa.eu

Any questions on the tender must be sent by e-mail to the same functional mailbox

Questions, answers to questions, together with any possible corrections to the tender documents will be published on this internet page.

Tenderers are therefore required to check this page regularly during the preparation of their tender and before the final submission.

A checklist summarising the required documents and information to be provided can be found in Annex 9 to the specifications. Tenderers are advised to use this checklist when preparing their offers. Any offer received which does not include all requested documents may be rejected.

The deadline for submission of tenders 12/06/2015 at 16.00h. Offers sent by postal or courier services must be posted before this date and time. Offers delivered by hand must be received before this date and time.

Email contact address: BUDG-15-PO-02@ec.europa.euCommunication to tenderers
The opening of the tenders will take place on: Friday 19/06/2015 at 15h p.m. at the following place: European Commission
DG BUDGET
Avenue d'Auderghem, 19
Building: BRE2
Room: 11/405
For external people, please ask for the secretary of Unit BUDG D4 (internal abbreviated dialling 60229), upon arrival in the Commission premises.
We kindly remind you that only one person per tenderer will be allowed to attend this session.

Contract notice: BUDG15/PO/04 - Open procedure for the access provision to the SWIFT network for DG Budget

Short description:

DG BUDGET of the European Commission is using the SWIFT network for the payments of the Commission.
The European Commission is launching an invitation to tender for the provision of leased line access to the SWIFTNet messaging platform by a SWIFT agreed network partner (having a Master service agreement with SWIFT). The purpose is to cover the needs of the Directorate-General for Budget, who is using the SWIFT network for the payments of the Commission. The services required are for three sites: Machelen and Brussels (Belgium) and Luxembourg (Luxembourg). The accesses for the Machelen and Luxembourg environments should be operational by 14th October 2015. The date for connecting the Brussels environment will be determined later.
The duration of the contracts resulting from the present invitation to tender shall be for a maximum period of four years.
Please note that:

Only offers from SWIFT agreed network partners will be accepted.

Any questions on the tender dossier must be sent by email to the address below.

Questions, answers to questions, together with any possible corrections to the tender documents, will be sent by email to all the tenderers.

The deadline for submission of offers is 25/05/2015 at 16.00. Offers sent by postal or courier services must be posted before this date and time. Offers delivered by hand must be received before this date and time.

Recent prior information notices that have expired
Call for tender N° 14/PO/04 Study on the potential and limitations of reforming the financing of the EU budget

The objective of the call for tender is to procure an academic study on the potential and limitations of reforming the financing of the EU budget. The study is to provide a comprehensive appraisal of the broader context in which the financing system of the EU budget is negotiated and decided as well as the ‘success parameters’ of the decision making process. It is to examine legal, economic, institutional and political aspects of the EU budget's own resources system. The study should draw lessons from the experience with previous negotiations so that its findings can contribute to a new approach for a possible future reform.
It shall provide original input in the reflections and the debate on the future of the own resources system. The results of the study will be taken into account in the deliberations of the high-level group on own resources.

Contract notice: BUDG/14/PN/03 - Negotiated procedure related to the access provision to the SWIFT network, for the MACHELEN (Belgium) and LUXEMBOURG (Luxembourg) environments

Short description:

DG BUDGET of the European Commission is using the SWIFT network for the payments of the Commission. In 2011, contracts were awarded for the provision of leased line access following the call for tenders BUDG11/PN/05. The current contracts with the selected companies have to be replaced by new contracts.

Therefore, the European Commission is launching a negotiated invitation to tender for the provision of leased line access to the SWIFT network, both in the MACHELEN (Belgium - Lot 1) and LUXEMBOURG (Luxembourg - Lot 2) environments. These accesses should be put in place before 13th October 2014

The duration of the contracts resulting from the present invitation to tender shall be for a maximum period of three years.
The negotiated procedure (low value contract) was chosen because the estimated value of the contracts (for the two lots, and for the total duration of three years) will not exceed 60.000€.

Please note that:

Only operators approved by SWIFT as "network partners" will be invited to submit an offer.

Any questions on the tender dossier must be sent by email to the address below.

Questions, answers to questions, together with any possible corrections to the tender documents, will be sent by email to all the tenderers.

The deadline for submission of offers is 16/06/2014 at 16.00. Offers sent by postal or courier services must be posted before this date and time. Offers delivered by hand must be received before this date and time.

2013/BUDG – Rental of infrastructure and logistic support for a seminar of the Heads of Finance Units (Brussels)

Contract notice: Call for tenders for the provision of advice and consultancy services in accounting and financial IT systems

Official Journal 2012/S146

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

The purpose of the tender is to provide the Contracting Authorities with multiple framework contracts for technical assistance services. For each lot, the Awarding Authority may award framework contracts with at least three operators provided that there is a sufficient number of economic operators who satisfy the selection criteria or a sufficient number of admissible tenders which meet the award criteria. For the execution of these contracts a cascade mechanism will apply.

This call for tender comprises two lots:

LOT 1: covers advice and assistance in accounting to the Contracting Authorities

Official Journal 2012/S146

This call for tender is published through a Commission-wide platform called "eTendering". If you are interested in this call, please use the link below to get access to the tender documents.

eTendering link to download documents and submit questions :https://etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-display.html?cftId=122
The documents will always be visible and downloadable but if you register on eTendering, you will be able to ask questions and you will be informed automatically on all changes that may be published (additional documents, answers to questions...);

Contract Notice B-Brussels: the provision of advice and consultancy services in accounting and financial IT systems 2012/S 146-243065

Interested parties are invited to consult the e-Tendering platform regularly. The Commission will not be liable in case tenderers would not take notice of the additional information published on the e-tender website with regard to the present call for tenders.

No paper copy will be issued. Time limit for receipt of tenders: 25.09.2012

Date for opening the tenders: 28.09.2012 05.10.2012 at 10:00

Contract notice : BUDG/11/PO/005 delivery of training courses and the supply of documentation for users of the financial systems specific to the European Commission, the Executive Agencies, Community Agencies and the other Institutions

Official Journal of the European Union, S series, Reference: OJ S207 – 2011/S207-336368 - of 27/10/2011

Short description of the contract

The objective of this framework contract is to deliver training courses and to supply documentation for users of the financial systems specific to the European Commission, the Executive Agencies, Community Agencies and the other Institutions.

Official Journal of the European Union 2011/S207-336368 - of 27/10/2011fr

Please download and read all the documents before submitting your offer.

First, you will also find a table recapitulating all the documents related to this tender and mentioning the language(s) in which each of them is available (English only).

A DVD containing additional information is available to all those who request it. Requests must be made by email to the address below, indicating a postal address to which the DVD may be sent or proposing a time at which the DVD will be collected from the Commission's offices in Brussels;

Any questionson the tender dossier must be sent by email to the address below

Questions, answers to questions, together with any possible corrections to the tender documents, will be published on this internet page.

Tenderers are therefore required to check this page regularly during the preparation of their offers and before final submission.

A checklist for the preparation of offers has been included in the tender dossier (annex 8). Tenderers are requested to use this checklist in preparing their offers. Any offers received which do not include all required documents and information may be rejected.

The deadline for submission of offers is 15/12/2011 at 16.00. Offers sent by postal or courier services must be posted before this date and time. Offers delivered by hand must be received before this date and time.

Communication to tenderers

For external people, please ask for secretary of Unit BUDG D4, upon arrival in the Commission premises.
We kindly remind you that only one person per tenderer will be allowed to attend this session.

Contract notice : BUDG/11/PO/03 supply of technical assistance services in the field of audits and controls - Official Journal 2011/S 141-233378 of 26/07/2011

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

The aim of this invitation to tender is to provide user departments with multiple framework contracts with reopening of competition for technical assistance services in the field of audits and controls.

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

The aim of this invitation to tender is to provide the IT department with multiple framework contracts ("cascade" system) for technical assistance for financial management systems mainly based on SAP ERP, Business Objects, Oracle Database and Weblogic. The services cover the different types of activities related to an information project, especially architecture (SOA), analysis, development/maintenance, system administration and security. The services can also be used by other Directorate-Generals.

Interested parties are invited to consult the website regularly. The Commission will not be liable in case tenderers would not take notice of the additional information published on the website with regard to the present call for tenders.

Cancellation notice: invitation to tender for the supply of technical assistance services for performance of audits and checks - Official Journal 2011/S 118-193919 of 22/06/2011

Incomplete procedure (Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, 17/05/2011, 2011/S 94-153071)

NB:

The awarding procedure has been discontinued.
The contract may be the object of a re-publication.

Contract notice: BUDG/11/PO/02 supply of technical assistance services in the field of audits and checks - Official Journal 2011/S 94 - 153071 of 17/05/2011

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

The aim of this invitation to tender is to provide user departments with multiple framework contracts with reopening of competition for technical assistance services in the field of audits and controls.

Contract notice : SUPPLY OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES IN THE FIELD OF INTERNAL CONTROL AND RISK MANAGEMENT - Official Journal 2010/S 113-170911

Short description of the contract or purchase(s):

The aim of this invitation to tender is to provide user departments with multiple framework contracts ("cascade" system) for technical assistance services.
This covers assistance to user departments in putting in place the internal control framework and in creating and developing methods, tools and techniques for internal controls and risk management.

Financial Institutions interested to participate to this tender shall send a mail stating their interest to the following address: BUDG-10-PO-CI@ec.europa.eu. They will receive an invitation to tender containing detailed instructions for the submission of their offer.